2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPresumptions are Rebuttable
Hillary is the presumptive nominee, because enough PDs have been won, and enough SDs have said how they will vote at the convention. Anyone is free to counter that presumption with evidence that the SDs will switch, or are even open to the possibility of switching. To say that they "can" switch first rebut the presumption it simply means the presumption doesn't become official until the convention.
So, instead of having semantic argument, why not provide evidence that the presumption is untrue?
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Nice challenge!
jamese777
(546 posts)Senator Sanders has made taking on the Democratic Party establishment a central focus of his campaign. As a life long independent, he only joined the Democratic Party a year and a half ago.
The unbound delegates are "Party Leaders and Elelected Officials" who the media has dubbed "Superdelegates." They are the epitome of the Democratic Party's establishment (e.g. Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader just endorsed Hillary Clinton). Hillary Clinton has been a Democrat for 45 years versus Bernie Sanders has been a Democrat for sixteen months. It is highly unlikely that establishment, old school Democrats will switch their publicly stated endorsements from a candidate who won 55% of the popular vote to a candidate who won 43% of the popular vote.
Stallion
(6,476 posts)everybody is getting worked up by semantics but the term Presumptive Nominee is accurate